Sajjad Hamid shares on Business Development a key for Family Business Growth

Sajjad Hamid shares on Business Development a key for Family Business Growth

About: Sajjad Hamid is an entrepreneurship educator who teaches at a Trinidad and Tobago community college. He lectures at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT) in entrepreneurship, family business management, and marketing. 

He writes a bi-weekly column, Entreprenomics, in the T&T Business Guardian newspaper. He has published over 180 articles that advise small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and family business owners to grow their ventures. 

Previously, Sajjad worked as Business Development Manager for a Fortune 500 company in the southern Caribbean. 

Sajjad owns a consulting and training company, Entrepreneur Central Ltd. He assists SME owners in growing their ventures through training and consulting. 

Sajjad developed the Knowledge Solopreneur Development Model, which shows knowledge workers how to transition to knowledge entrepreneurs through an iterative process. 

He is the author of Build Your Legacy Business: Solopreneur To Family Business Hero. This book takes the entrepreneur from mindset development to starting and growing their ventures. The solopreneur can reference the book to transform their business into a family firm and so leave a legacy behind. 

Director of Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce. 

Sajjad has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University Of Florida (U.S), an MBA (General Management) from the University of Reading (U.K), and a Master of Science in Business Psychology from Franklin University (U.S) and an Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute (U.S).